WINDSOR
Windsor’s Town Council discussed the town’s progress in meeting its 5-year, 10-year and 15-year goals during a work session held on Saturday morning. The council also talked about the renovation schedule for Windsor’s Town Center and discussed the possibility of creating an Olde Town Windsor district in its comprehensive plan.

The 5-10-15-year plan, originally drafted in 2011, specified that the town was to, within the next five years: build a new police station; build a storage building for maintenance equipment; develop a landscape plan for the town’s business district at the intersection of Routes 460 and 258, construct sidewalks on Route 460 with landscaping and decorative lighting; purchase land for a future municipal building; add stoplights at Roberts Avenue Community Drive and Route 460; add a recycling program; update the town’s zoning and subdivision ordinances; replace the town’s entrance signs on Routes 460 and 258; and complete sidewalks from North Court Street to Route 258, Route 460 to Windsor Woods, and Church Street to Holland Meadows.

According to Town Manager Michael Stallings, the police station relocation, landscape plan for the business district, land purchase for a new municipal building, recycling program, updated zoning and subdivision ordinances, and new town entrance signs have all been completed on schedule.

The storage building, sidewalks and decorative lighting on Route 460, and sidewalks on North Court and Church streets have yet to be completed.

Stallings added that the Virginia Department of Transportation indicated that the proposed stoplights for Roberts Avenue, Community Drive and Route 460 were unwarranted, and thus, they are being removed from the 10- and 15-year plans. The plans for sidewalks on North Court Street and Church street are being revised and in the planning phase.

Regarding the Town Center, the council asked Stallings if it would be possible to include the kitchen and hallway bathrooms in the first phase of the renovation and leaving all work to the gym area for phase two. Stallings said he would work with the architect to see if the council’s request was feasible.

The Olde Town Windsor district, first proposed in the 2016 comprehensive plan, would permit mixed use rezoning or conditional use permits on the area of Church Street from Route 460 southward, ending at a line past 40 Church St. as a pilot project. In this designated area, the town would consider decorating fire hydrants and trash receptacles with railroad-themed designs and adding brick-paved sidewalks to create a more unified downtown area. Mixed use zoning and conditional use permits would permit residents living in this area to operate certain low-traffic commercial businesses such as antique stores, flower shops and offices, as well as higher-intensity residential apartments.

The plan further specifies that no additions or demolitions to a house would be permitted to promote a new business location and that all rezoning and conditional use permits would be voluntary and on a case-by-case basis due to the application fees involved.

The council further discussed its proposed sidewalks at their regular scheduled meeting on Tuesday evening.